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European take on Book Digitisation
Talkback Interesting take on the whole book digitisation issue from the European commission here: Europe's Digital Library doubles in size but also shows EU's lack of common web copyright solution http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?
[September 3, 2009, 10:59]
Europe urged to hasten book digitisation
News Europe should seize this opportunity to take the lead, and to ensure that books digitisation takes place on the basis of European copyright law, and in full respect of Europe's cultural diversity," Reding said in a statement on Tuesday.
[October 13, 2009, 17:17]
Amazon ups the ante for digitisation
News In a sense, this is familiar ground for Amazon, which led the technology industry's move toward book digitisation with its "Search Search Inside the Book did seem like it was pioneering in this effort of scanning and digitisation.
[November 10, 2005, 17:15]
Google, US authors settle book-digitisation lawsuit
News The US Authors Guild and a group of publishers announced on Tuesday that they have reached a settlement with Google in a lawsuit over its Google Book Search initiative. The settlement enables authors and publishers to receive compensation for...
[October 28, 2008, 14:47]
Google offers compromise over European books
News In a move to assuage European publishers' concerns over book digitisation, Google on Monday said that European books still listed as commercially available will not be included in its online registry of orphaned and out-of-print works — unless...
[September 8, 2009, 8:31]
National Archives puts Cabinet Office papers online
News The 'Cabinet Papers 1915-1977' project has been funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc) digitisation programme and will enable users to search for keywords within the collection. Paola Marchionni, Jisc digitisation programme...
[December 4, 2008, 10:51]
Cash faces extinction as e-payments emerge
News Newton cited three developments contributing to the increasing digitisation of money: the consumerisation of IT, the globalisation of money markets and the basic convenience of the emerging payment methods.
[November 12, 2007, 12:06]
EC seeks more cash for online cultural library
News The Commission wants both public and private investment to go into the project, in order to speed up the pace of digitisation, with just one percent of national libraries' contents now digitised. However, the Commission picked out a handful of...
[August 12, 2008, 13:11]
Europe falling behind US in cloud, says Reding
News She repeated her call for pan-European intellectual property rights licensing, and also called for new rules to encourage the digitisation of books — to achieve this latter goal, she said, the creation of a Europe-wide public registry for out-of...
[July 9, 2009, 16:09]
Google side-steps AI rumours
News During his visit Dyson claimed that one Google staff member working on book digitisation told him that some of the material was destined for a non-human audience. Google has been quizzed about rumours that its current quest to digitise books may be...
[November 15, 2005, 15:00]
Dell boosts its digital-healthcare strengths
News The show is drawing particular attention this year because of the billions of dollars in US federal stimulus money being targeted at the digitisation of medical records. Dell joined a growing chorus of IT companies trying to grab a bigger slice of...
[April 7, 2009, 11:53]
Microsoft partners with British Library
Talkback Who will pay for the digitisation/ If MS will they charge for acessing/downloading? if free will BL make a charge for accessing/downloading? If all libraries agreed to digitise using the same format and agreed to make access freeit would be a truly...
[November 7, 2005, 13:18]
Microsoft escapes voice-data lawsuit
News Microsoft has successfully fended off a lawsuit over a set of controversial voice-digitisation patents, in a case that could have roiled the computer and Internet telephony industries if the patents had been upheld as valid.
[February 6, 2004, 10:55]
Online library offers 1.5m books for free
News The Universal Digital Library, a book-scanning project backed by several major libraries across the globe, has completed the digitisation of 1.5 million books and on Tuesday made them free and publically available.
[November 28, 2007, 11:13]
NHS IT initiative on track, according to director
News The person leading the digitisation of the NHS in England has described its progress as "pretty much on track". Director general of the National Programme for IT in the NHS, Richard Granger, was speaking at the Improvement and Development Agency e...
[September 30, 2004, 15:30]
No need to burn books you can't read - DRM and public libraries
Blog Comment In a government funded digitisation project a few years ago we developed a GPL-licenced open-source tool for a web based and MySQL-driven issue tracker, and the BL approached us on this with interest.
[October 20, 2008, 8:34]
Open Book Alliance to oppose Google Books deal
News The Open Book Alliance, a consortium that includes not-for-profit author groups, library institutions, and Google rivals Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo, launched on Wednesday to "insist that any mass book digitisation and distribution effort be open...
[August 27, 2009, 11:51]
Google clashes with UK publishers over digital libraries
News There is the serious issue of the digitisation of massive library collections where the majority of works are in copyright. Google has again clashed with publishers over its controversial programme to scan, digitise and make searchable the...
[June 6, 2006, 13:45]
Microsoft partners with British Library
News The library digitisation deal follows similar projects from the likes of Yahoo! Microsoft has signed a deal with the British Library to digitise 100,000 of its books. The software giant will use MSN Book Search to index 25 million pages of British...
[November 4, 2005, 15:25]
UK urged to help Europe's digital library
News The Commission is also asking European countries to set up "large scale digitisation facilities" to speed up the project and has put some funds aside to pay for them. The UK is being urged to step up its efforts to contribute to a Europe-wide free...
[August 31, 2006, 10:10]
